The tornado.

Laura Brown
5 min readNov 25, 2020

Midnight. March 3. 2020.

The human brain has another gear that it goes into when it learns it is in danger. Time slows down, or the brain speeds up, and seconds feel like entire lifetimes.

For a moment, just one single moment that somehow also felt like an infinite forever, I stared down the Universe itself.

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Laura Brown

Media businesswoman and writer of essays. Based in Nashville, TN.